Windows 7 SP1 Still On Track for Q4 2010

IDG News/Computerworld/Gregg Keizer gets it wrong again when this bizarre distributed entity reports this week that Microsoft "may move up Windows 7 service pack release" from its fictional original plan to "wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack." Now, he says, Microsoft has "since changed its mind" and may ship Windows 7 SP1 as soon as "the last quarter of 2010."

Nope.

Q4 2010 has always been the plan. As I've been saying for months, that plan has Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) SP1 shipping exactly one year after the original release of those OSes. That plan hasn't changed, to my knowledge.